Monday, January 21, 2008

Your own private Mailinator

As you probably know, Mailinator has a always-growing list of alternate domains. However, those are just the domains sponsored by us.

In truth - Mailinator accepts ANY email you fling at it*. In other words - you can setup your OWN personal domains simply by setting your MX record (i.e. through your registrar or DNS server) to point your mail delivery to Mailinator!

Simply put - if you own YOURDOMAIN.com, you can simply change that domain's MX record to point to mail.mailinator.com and all email you send to @YOURDOMAIN.com will then end up in Mailnator.

You can publicize this fact - or you can keep your personal alternate domain a secret and have your own private Mailinator !

20 comments:

There is one noteworthy caveat to the "private mailinator" concept: emails still go to public mailboxes. In other words, mail to the aforementioned "stinkywinky@dinkybutt.com" would end up in the regular "stinkywinky" mailbox, accessible by anyone from the mail page.It's not so much a "private mailinator", as it is a "personalized mailinator address". Still really cool though!! :D

I have used a suggested names a few times, one more notable than others, I have noticed that other people have used the same name and deleted messages to me.Can this be avoided at all when using suggested name by mailinator?Please add this feature, it would be more secure then

I suggest that you make it possible that one's own domain appears in the alternative domains list.

So if you receive an email via a new domain, check if its MX record actually points to mailinator, and that some extra record is present that indicates consent of the domain owner to appear in the list.